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Big Boss Season 4: Who is the Winner? Shweta, Dolly or Ashmit?
Dec 27th
The Big Boss season 4 is one of the most impressive reality shows of the year 2010. Big boss season 4 kicked off this year with a group of celebrities having controversial pasts. Hollywood’s sizzling actress Pamela Anderson also joined the show for 3 days. Wrestler The Great Khali, Pakistani controversial actress Veena Malik also participated in the fourth edition of the show. Salman Khan hosted the 4th edition of the popular show on colors.
After so many weeks of interesting living together of these unlikely people in the Bog boss house the season is heading towards the finale on January 9th 2011. Salman Khan the grand host of reality show Big Boss 4 will dance on a rocking number for the finale episode and will announce Big Boss 4 winner. The sizzling Malika Sherawat will join salman on stage to perform as after Big Boss gets over it will be her More >
Shah Rukh Khan to promote JMJ group XXX Energy Drinks
Dec 27th
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has been chosen as the brand ambassador of JMJ Group firm XXX Energy Drinks Limited. The company is targeting sales of Rs 100 crore from the brand by 2015, said it is looking to set up its first production facility for which it is scouting for location.
“We are in talks to get Shah Rukh Khan as brand ambassador… We will officially announce in March or April next year,” JMJ Group Vice Chairman Sachin Joshi said. Earlier this year, the brand has been associated with Khan’s IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as its principal sponsor.
Sachin Tendulkar Scored 50th Test Hundred
Dec 21st
Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, the cricket God of India scored his 50th test century against South Africa. Graeme Smith congratulated Tendulkar. Smith said scoring under pressure is a feather in Tendulkar’s cap, “The guy has scored 50 Test hundreds so it’s a bit hard to rate this one. He’s scored a few hundreds before I can even remember. Under pressure, being able to score runs is a feather in his cap. I was a bit surprised that he made life for us so easy this morning. I think MS needs credit for the partnership as well… If he didn’t hang around, Sachin wouldn’t have got his 50th. That partnership in general was the one time that they really stood up in the game.” More >
Lakshmi Mittal topped the List of Richest 100 in South Africa
Dec 6th
Lakshmi Mittal, the renowned Indian steel magnet remains the richest business tycoon in South Africa for the sixth consecutive year.
Mittal is on the tops the 100 wealthiest businessmen in South Africa released by the weekly ‘Sunday Times’, even though he is not living in South Africa.
Mittal’s listed holdings of R 21.5 billion ($3.4 billion). Mittal first provided technical assistance to turn the ailing Iscor around before buying it out in 2001 as he expanded his global steel empire.
The ‘Rich List’ is based on an analysis of holdings of all companies listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange, thus being only the South African portion of Mittal’s wealth, as he has huge interests worldwide. More >
Indian Idol Winner Sri Ram sings for The Chronicals of Narnia: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
Dec 1st
Sri Ram Chandra, the Indian Idol season five winner sing a song The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He has been roped in by Fox Star Studios India in association with Sony Music for a special song in Narnia 3. Sri Ram has recorded a song in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
Composer Harpreet did the song ‘Rehnuma’ which will feature with the end credits of the respective language versions of the film and will also have a special music video featuring Sreeram and clips from the film. More >
Varalakshmi Vratham in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka!
Aug 20th
Vara lakshmi vratham is a pooja done by married women for the long life of their husbands. They pray Goddess Maha Lakshmi on the second Friday of the auspicious month of sravana. The tradition of pooja is mostly followed by the women of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka the southern states of India. During this time the most market is for flowers and Gold. The gold sales will be very high in this month.